Health Library News

All the previous problems reported with the NHS Evidence Journals and Databases access should have been resolved now. Please contact us if you are experiencing any further issues.

Remember that we will be closed over the Christmas holidays and there will be reduced opening times during next week.

Latest news picked via the Twitterverse… New online self management resource iMedicalApps launches forum for mobile medical community , giving away free apps An evaluation of the use of performance measures in health care : ... Winterwatch - how the NHS is coping with the increased demands of the cold winter months New Cochrane Library editorial: Implications for research : getting the most out of Cochrane Reviews For more Follow us Twitter …

Access to ebsco databases and journals has been restored. However journal titles from Medline with Full-text are still missing from the NHS Evidence My Journals list. This has been reported and we hope to resolve it soon. In the meantime you can view these titles by accessing the database Medline with Full-text directly from EbscoHost databases .

We are currently experiencing problems accessing full-text articles from the NHS My Journals list and the NHS HDAS databases. We have reported the problem and hope to resolve it soon. If anyone experiences any problems please can you send details of the article (journal title, year, volume etc) to the eresources librarian . Apologies for any inconvenience.

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.327 Monday 19th December, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.326 Monday 12th December 2011, please click here

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Current Awareness Bulletin no.325 5th December 2011, please click here

Wiley will be carrying out maintenance on their services during Saturday 17th December. This may affect access to journals accessible via the Wiley Online Library service.

The new schedule of training courses held at the Health Library is now available. You can sign-up to learn about: Health Information on the Internet Literature Searching using Databases Cochrane Library Critical Appraisal Refworks These courses are available free to our NHS users and Keele staff and students. Book online to reserve your place.

Have your say about the university IT services . Don't leave it too late!! Survey closes 19th December 2011

The for sale book trolley has been refreshed with texts at bargain prices. Below is a selection of some of the discarded texts which have been added to the trolley. Items are sold on a first come, first served basis. Payment may be by cash or credit/debit card.   Walsh, Denis: Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth: A guide for midwives 2007, Routledge Tardiff, Kenneth: Concise Guide to Assessment and Management of Violent Patients (2 nd Ed.) 1996, American Psychiatric Press, Inc. Blumenfield, Michael: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry 2003, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins McGovern, Margaret: Altschul’s Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (7 th Ed.) 1994, Bailliere Tindall Littlewood, Roland: Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorites and Psychiatry (3 rd Ed.) 1997, Routledge Gillam, Tony: Reflections on Community Psychiatric Nursing 2002, Routledge Fuller, Geraint: Neurology: An Illustrated Colour Text (2 nd Ed.) 2006, Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone Valman, B...

Latest news selection via the Twitterverse… Atlas of Variation published: shining a light on variation in the NHS Full NMC advice on social networking Two new videos on @RCPsych YouTube channel celebrating the careers of psychiatrists Sir Michael Rutter & Sir David Goldberg In a special issue The Lancet Neurology presents four Review articles on various aspects of stroke New guidance out today to help tackle the shortgage of donor organs For more Follow us Twitter …

The Campus Library opening times for the holiday period are now available.

This is an important update for Keele users of the Refworks reference management software. For details see the Campus Library news .

To read the Mental Health and Social Care Bulletin no. 324, 28th November 2011, please click here

Our latest online tutorial – Finding Information on the Internet – will help you get started looking for health-related information. You’ll learn where to look on our website for: ** Databases ** Journals ** eBooks ** We’ve got links to condition-specific Internet sites that you can try as well as a comprehensive list of literature searching sites . There are also videos that show you how to get started with popular NHS-based freely available resources such as: ** NHS Evidence ** Map of Medicine ** NICE **

The Health Library opening times for the Christmas holidays are now available

You can browse all the latest titles added to the catalogue in the past month. Titles include: Anatomy and physiology for nurses Clinical education in the health professions / edited by Clare Delany, Elizabeth Molloy Evidence and skills for normal labour and birth: a guide for midwives / Denis Walsh Oxford handbook of practical drug therap y / Duncan Richards, Jamie Coleman, John Reynolds, Jeffrey Aronson Problem solving in neuroradiology / [edited by] Meng Law, Peter M. Som, Thomas P. Naidich Check the catalogue for the full collection.

The Map of Medicine has been updated to include pathways for new conditions as well as updates to a range of existing conditions: Anaemia Cough in children Cough in adults Crystal arthropathy Pelvic organ prolapse Hip pain Map of Medicine provides access to a variety of condition-specific evidence-based care maps. For more details see this bulletin

We have a test version of the library catalogue for use with smart phones . Get more details from here .